Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5 mini

Name: GPT-5 mini
Brand: OpenAI
Price: 0.250000 USD

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5 mini: GPT-5 mini is cheaper by 20% on average. Gemini 2.5 Flash from Google Vertex AI (1,048,576-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT-5 mini from OpenAI (272,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

Input tokens / request3,000

01,048,576

Output tokens / request400

0128,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Google Vertex AI

$289/mo

Input $0.300/M · Output $2.50/M

GPT-5 miniCheaper

OpenAI

$236/mo

Input $0.250/M · Output $2.00/M

At this workload, GPT-5 mini is 18% cheaper than Gemini 2.5 Flash — a savings of $53.27/month ($639/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-mini
  provider: openai
fallback:
  model: gemini-2-5-flash
  provider: vertex-ai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Vertex AI	GPT-5 mini OpenAI
Input price	$0.300/M	$0.250/M
Output price	$2.50/M	$2.00/M
Context window	1,048,576	272,000
Max output	65,535	128,000
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	✓	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026